Fieldy: Andy Blair is the latest to add his voice to the Barry Bannan bangwagon following his sparkling performance against Blackburn last night. Our former player and current AVTV match commentator has long admired Bannan and was delighted to see him get a full 90 minutes in last night's 3-1 victory as we progressed through to the fourth round of the Cup. It also seems his thoughts on the player aren't that removed from our new managers view of his potential. Full article: Little Bannan Makes A Big Impact

Fieldy: Well who would've thunk it, the much maligned (rightly at points) Emile of the Heskey won us the game last night...now if he could play like that every week! As somebody who suffered mixed fortunes under O'Neill's rotation policy, it sounds like Houllier's 'everybody is involved' outlook to a playing staff has excited our former England forward and it's certainly been a long time since we saw a performance of that stature from him. Had he done that more often maybe O'Neill's rotation policy may have suited him? Full article: Heskey To Play His Part

Fieldy: Barry Bannan has hailed the half time pep talk of new manager Gerard Houllier as a key ingredient in the team turning round last night's Cup match against Blackburn. Full article: Houllier's Half Time Magic

Ha, the second bit of transfer gossip since Gerard Houllier became Villa boss. The first being the link to Michael Owen. Well, today I can exclusively reveal that The People are exclusively revealing two January targets.... who were they? Have a look at the article to find out! Full details: January Transfer Talk Already For Villa!

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Barry Bannan is certainly becoming our new flavour of the month, and its good to see Andy Blair now singing his praises. Hopefully he can push on and really start hammering on the first team door. Many more showings like his effort of the other evening against Blackburn Rovers, and GH might just have to include him in the first team starting eleven.

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